Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 223, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 August 1901 — Page 2

TTTE INDLVNAPOLIS JOTTRXAI 'SUNDAY. AUGUST 11, 1001.

to It. If the tru.-t persists in fighting the matter f. .1 I'.rJsh. the chances are that It ill be bankrupted." " Mr. McAbee 1- tirm In hi belief that the strike of the Meel workers Ls Justltlable. "My reasons f.-r th'nking this," he said, "are that if the men hal not taken this Hand row. In twelve months from now the Heel trust would have taken hold of some tf the smaller mills and weeded ont every I'nkin rr.3n In them, one at a time, just as hey have done In the nonunion mill they now own. Why. a man dare not mention organization or h is at once 'not needed.' It was th only altern. itive the organization had. to strike now or le crushed p. cemeai. That was evidenced from Schwab's testimony brfore the industrial commission. At that time he aid that ht took no stock In organization and believed th.it organization Was detrimental to the workmen, that It not give them a fair chance. "Of course, organization is detrimental to rertaln mn, but who are ttiose men? Why, everybody knows that It I the rule In all Urge corporations that the officials have .pertain friends or relatives in whom they irtr especially Interested and whom they Intend to 'boost' up over the heads of men that have worked in the plant, perhaps. Inr ;par.-. Ts" i w thfä cnnot be done in union factories because the unions will not tolerte such a practice. They insist that men l.e promoted naturally and regularly, for m-rit and fidelity." Mr. McAbee sai.l that the strike will afreet live plant in this State, the tin-plate mills at III wood. Atlant and Middletown and the steei work.- in Muncie and the Uorning steel works in Hast Chicago. may iik attack k ii i. oiiio.

Jtnte Authorities In ventlKntiiiK Stntn of the Corporation. COLL'MHUS, O., Aug-. 10. It develops hat. independent of the legal action which ts to be brought against the United States gteol Corporation by the Anti-trust League, action I al.-o contemplated by the secretary Of state. It is believed by that official that Ihe United States Steel Corporation is doing biine.-.s in Ohio contrary to law. The corporation has never been admitted as a foreign corporation to do business in Ohio, although the property controlled by it in this State Is represented by several million dollars' worth of stock, on which, if the Ohio companies have really been absorbed, the State is entitled to collect a tax of onetenth of 1 per cent, under w hat is known as the Hard law, the constitutionality of which was recently sustained by the Supreme Court. The secretary of state has been investigating the mutter and has come to the conclusion that the 1'nited States Btecl Corporation is liable as a foreign corporation to the payment of the tax, which would amount to probably more than $1ÜU,0. It was stated by Chief Clerk Alread, of the secretary of state's office, to-night that notices would probably be sent to the et eel corporation during the com in if week, calling attention to its obligations under the law and requesting compliance with it. Should the plea bo made that the Ohio com 2anie have not roen absorbed, and are operating under their original charters, the Vnited States Steel Corporation will be. attacked under the Valentine anti-trust law. which prohibits the operation of companies holding the stocks of other companies in trust. The constituent companies of the United States Steel Corporation licensed to do busl-, ness in Ohio are th" American Sheet Steel Company, the American Tin Plate Comlany. the Federal Steel Company, the National Steel Company and the National Tut Company. If these companies have been purchased outright by the United States Steel Corporation, then It is claimed the latter Is amenable to the Hard law taxing foreign corporations doing business in the State, and for the violation of which severe penalties arc provided. Foreign corporations failing to comply with this law have no standing in the Ohio courts, and their officers are punishable by fine not exfeeding Jöno and imprisonment not exceeding six months. . TOM L. JOII.NSON IX THE I'ICiHT. Multimillionaire Leading the Legal Attack on the "Merl Combine' COMJMIU'S. O.. Aug. 10. Columbus will he the ptorm center of the light between th Amalgamated Association and the steel trust, and all orders will probably be given from this city to the various lodges in the State. The contest promises to be unique In that the Amalgamated men will right the l.iw with the law. and If the federal or state authorities are appealed to civil and criminal proceedings are to be brought against the officers of the constituent companies of the United States Steel Corporation. It is held that the steel corporation is a violator cither of the anti-trust laws or else of the foreign corporations law, which requires that foreign corporations shall certify that it is doing business in the State and pay in to the secretary of state onetenth oi i per cent, of its capital stock. The legal ii preventatives of the Amalgamated Association claim that the United States Eteel Corporation has not. in fact, bought the stork of the constituent companies, and that, therefore, there hau been h violation of the Valentine anti-trust law of Ohio. The National Anti-trust League, headed ty Tom I-. Johnson, of Cleveland, has retained former Attorney General Monnett, of Ohio. Information has been sent to all Amalgamated lodges in Ohio that the law FAIR WEATHER TO'DAY. Slightly Cooler In Southern Indiana Warmer on Monday WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.-Forecast for ßunday and Monday: For Ohio and Indiana Fair on Sunday nd Monday; lightly cooler on Sunday in southern portion; warmer on Monday; light northwesterly winds, becoming variable. For Illinois Fair on Sunday, with rising temperature In northern portion. Monday lair; variable winds. Local Observations on Saturday. liar. Ther. H.H. Wind. Weather. lre. Ja. m..M 71 fct S'west. Cloudy. 0.01 p.m.. 23.92 hi 52 N'west. Clear. T Maximum temperature, &$; minimum temperature, 74. Comparative statement of the mean temperature and total precipitation Aug. 10: f Temp. Tre. Normal 7tf o.ll Mean SI o.Ol departure 5 O.io Departure since Aug. 1 10 1.14 Departure wince Jan. 1 U) 10.76 Plus. RICHARD 11. SULLIVAN. Observer Temporarily in Charge. Yeaterday'a Temperatures. Stations. Chicago. Ill Cairo, 111 Cheyenre, Wyo. Cincinnati, O. .. Concordia, Ivan. Min. Max. 7 70 8S hi IK) M Ki ', M i V) m; 12 so ss Nt D2 p. m. C4 Jv2 72 S4 7 '8 hi N 82 i Sh K2 7S 76 5 i' S2 .64 .:2 ..7S ..tot ..5s ..t ..72 ..76 . . t Davenport, Ja. De Mointtf. la. Kansas City, Mo. Little Rock. Ark. Memphis, Tenn. .. Nashville, Term. . North l'latte. Neb Oklahoma. O. T. . Omaha. Neb Pittsburg. I'a Rapid City. S. D.. Ft. Lou!. Mo Bpringtle'd. III. ... f prtngrie'd. Mo. .. Vlcksburg. Miss. . ...74 ...C4 ...74 ...M ...70 ...74 MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS. NI2W YORTv. Aug. 10. Arrived: Laurenlian. from tllaygow; St. Louts, from isouthfmpton and Cherbourg; Umbria. trom .tverpool; I'otsdain. from Rotterdam and I'oulogne. Sailed: Nomadic, for Liverpool; Marquette, for London; Statendam, for Rotterdam, via Rouiogne: Minneapolis, for LonnVm; Astoria, for GUffow; Campania, for Liverpool; Werra, for Genoa; Pennsylvania, fcr Hamburg, via Plymouth and IherbourKQUKKNRTOWN. Au. 10.-Arrived: L'trurla. fr..m New York, for Liverpool, und proeeede.l. Hailed: Cymric, from Liverpool, for New York. LIVERPOOL. Ausr. 10 Arrived: Rovlc. rorn New Vor. Sailed: Lucar.lu. for New York; Cevk. for New York. ANTWKRP. Au?. 10. Arrived: Southarark. from New York. Sailed: Frlesland, for New York. IIAMPUPJi. Aug. f).-Arrived: Ft ert Risoarck. from New York. HAVRK. Aug. lv. Hailed: La Gascogne, for New York. GLASGOW, Aug. 10. Arrived; Peruvian, from liustou.

must take its course, anil that the law would be sufficient protection for the strikers.

iiayoii iiL.tcK iii:ff.nsi:. AVhy lie S) mpntltlzra III the Striken of Melveesport. PITTSBURG. Aue. lo. Mayor Rlack. of McKeesport, issued a formal statement torJght defending his aUitude toward the United States Steel Corporation. He said: "The assertion of the United Statts Steel Corporation that It will dismantle the W. Dewees Wood mill may or may not mean what appears on the surface. In the twenty ytar3 or more that 1 have bten a resident of this city I have heard similar threats, the motives of which we have no further to eck than those which actuate the present situation. "The reason which the trust gives for the removal is thnt the mayor and people of McKeesport are hostile to the trust. In other words, because the peopie of the city and the chief executive favor the opponent aKdlnst the oppressor. Utiaus? their bmpathles are r.ith the downtrodden and against those who seek to enrich themselvts by ill-reuuited toll, the trust will seek some other field. Where in all the broad expanse of the great Union can the United States Kteel Corporation find the piace where the sympathies of the people will not ever be with those who groan under the heel of the opprtssor? Where in all the wide world can they go where they can escape the inexorable punishment that infinitude meets out to rapine and injustice? What boots it that the place of oppression nit an a different name if the oppression gees on? "Jt was said, many centuries ago, that he who wishes Justice must do Justice and the same principle, now c maxim of equity, im plies as surely and as forcibly as when it was first enunciated. Let the trust treat Its men as they should be treated and It will not be necessary to construct mills on wheels that they may flee from every expression of righteous public sentiment. As a matter of fact if the Woods mill is moved It I out of date. Talk of the rtmoval of the mill is an old story, stale and uninteresting because of too frequent repetition. "Where in all the land can the trust pet better treatment than from the municipality of McKeesrort? Take, for instance, the matter of taxes. The trust mills here tc-day pay taxes on assessment valuations of a trifle over 4 rer cent, of their real value. On the other hand, the laboring mn who owns his own home is taxed to the three-quarters of the real value of his home. Were the trust taxed on the same basis it would take thousands of dollars annually from the trust coffers. Cleveland, where the tax campaign of Mayor Tom L. Johnson is waging, would hardly do as well. The citizens of McKeesport by a bill in equity can prevent this spoliation, but it is a l&sting injury to property and injury to taxpayers. "I have served many years in the Councils of the city and I know what I am talking about when I assert that every request made by the mh'ls for the vacation of the streets for special privileges and special benefits have been granted. They have rever been backward in usking what they wanted. They have never asked in vain. "If the Wood mill is felled the gap will soon bo filled. There Is capital enough in the universe and loyalty enough here to make that certain. This city Is too strong to cringe under an imaginary blow. Kvcry consideration of location, tax rate and natural advantage points to a future greatness for McKeesport that staggers imagination. "I am heart and soul with the men enf raged In the strike. I gave out in a widey publlsed statement, which had the full approval of the strikers themselves, that I would use every power vested in me as mayor of this city to preserve order here and protect propertj 1 further expressed my faith In the splendid body of men who make up our army of toilers and said that I believed that if trouble came it would not be through th-m. This 1 now emphatically repeat. I am and always will be with the downtrodden when they are in the right anl these workers- are in the right." A citizens' comrrlttee of Dubois, Pa., has forwarded the frllowlng to J. Pierpont Morgan: "J. Pxuont Morgan. New York: We are authorized to say to you that the citizen? of Dubois will give Jl.ooO.ooi) to have the McKeesport mills of the United States Steel Corporation moved to Dubois." Tills i signed by M. Ruslander. G. A. Lukehart, Yalter Ilatton, committee. PRESIDENT'S VISITORS er York t.ermans Call nt tin McKinley Home In Canton. CANTON, O., Aug. 10. Miss Helen McKinley, the President's sister, and Miss Grace McKinley, his niece, have returned to Cleveland, after a visit of a. few days here. Dr. P. M. Rlxcy, who has been In Washington for a week or more, returned to Canton Friday morning and rejoined the McKinley household. There were a number of social callers at the McKinley home today, including John C. Dueber and his friend. Colonel Arnold. There were also a number of people to see the President on personal business. A delegation of the German-American League of New York, the successor to the German-American McKinley and Roosevelt League, called on the President to-day and had an interview with him in relation to New York matters. The delegation consisted of Ludwig F. Thoma, the president of the league, Marks Llssberger and Rev. Lithauer. member of the executive committee of that league. AGAINST RUSSELL SAGE. Decision Involving a Large Tract of Land In Minnesota. ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 10. Judge Bunn to-day rendered a decision in favor of the plaintiff In the case of Uri L. Lamprey against the St. Paul & Chicago Railway Company, the Farmers' Loan and Trust Company and Russell Sage. The case involves the ownership of a large tract of land in Otter Tall county which Rursell Sage attempted to hold because he had paid the delinquent taxes. Tha court decided that If the due from Lamprey to Russell Sage is paid within thirty days Lamprey become the owner of the land by virtue of a contract whereby ho was to receive the land aa his commission for selling other lands for Sage. PROBABLY LOST IN NIAGARA. Man Who Thoaght lie Could Svrlm Arrow the Rapid. BOWLING-GREEN, O., Aug. 10.-Henry Young, of the firm of Russell & Young, here. Is thought to have met his death at Niagara Falls In an attempt to swim across the whirlpool rapids with the assistance of a life preserver he had Invented. Young left for the Pan-American two weeks ago, and before he went he was very enthusiastic about this feat, which he declared he could successfully accomplish. Dispatches tell of a man who wa lost trying to swim the rapids, and he is believed to have been Young. Confederate Monument Unveiled. SPRINGFIELD. Mo.. Aug. 10. The J2ü.ör0 monument erected by the Missouri Daughters of the Confederacy to the memory of Missouri's Confederate dead was unveiled here to-day M the state reulon of ex-Con-federates. Rrigadler General S. H. Kennard accepted the monument on behalf of the Confederate Veterans' Association, and F. I. Rronaugh. of St. Louis, spoke for the Sons of Veterans. The monument is a heroic figure of a private soldier. It was designed by Gaetano Trentanovo. the Italian sculptor. Price of Prunes Advanced. SAN J03E. Cal.. Aug. 10,-The directors of the California Cured Fruit Association have placed prunes on the market at an advance of one-quarter of a cent, making the bals price. 3V; cents. In the order fixing the price, and putting the fruit on the market it Is distinctly stated that the right to stop sales and to change the price is reserved. The association will not even agree to sell as much as one hundred carloads. Kinn Driven Out of Town, ST. PAUL, Minn.. Aug. 10. The coroner's Jury completely exonerated Deputy Sheriff Gcbo. who shot and killed Alexander Matson during a riot yesterday. The Finns then- turned on three of their countrymen whom they accused of aiding officials and drove them out of town. The Finns are in an ugly mood and serious trouble is apprehended. Christian .Scientist Fined. 8POKANE. Wash.. Aug. 10. Mrs. J. Davis, a Christian Science healer, was today found guilty of failure to report a case of scarlet fever, as required by law, and was given the minimum fine of S and costs. Christian Scientists declaru they will carry the case to the highest court In the State rather than accept the declsloa.

TAMMANY GAMING TRUST

IlKCKIVKS A SKTIlACIv AT THC 1IAMJÜ OF THE S. P. C. Two Agent- Arrested ns Go-llet vreen for Police and Gambier Con fens-Ion Saiil to Have lleen .Made. NEW YORK, Aug. lO.-The arrest of the alleged business agents of a gambling combine for aiding and abetting gambling, on the evidence of agents of the Society for the Prevention of Crime, who charge that these men were the go-betweens between the gamblers and the police in arranging and carrying out a system of police protection, was followed quickly to-day by these two men Edgar A. Whitney and Ernest Eargdorft making sworn statements to the district attorney which are said to be in the nature of confessions, and the contents of which are withheld from the public until the statements have been Investigated. When Justice Jerome came out of the rooms after the conference, which lasted from 2 to 8 o'clock, he said: "After a conference with the district attorney both of us feel that to make any statement concerning the inquiry would be to impede the district attorney in the prosecution of further inquiry. It will naturally occur to you that such a case as the district attorney has before him Is suggestive of many things that may require careful a;ul It may be extended investigation, and even to Intimate their character would reader that difficult and perhaps defeat their purpose. "I can say that tha defendant endeavored, apparently w 1th great sincerity, to do all in his power to atone for the wrongs tnat he has done. I suspect that the value of the inquiry would require that no Information be given out without danger of tampering or impeding the action of the district attorney." Whitney and Eergdorff were arrested on a charge of conspiracy and aiding and abetting gamblers, and were arraigned before Justice Jerome, in the rooms of Wie society. They were each held in $3.000 bail. It is claimed the two detectives had approached Agent Dillon, of the society, and offered him money to keep them informed of the movements against poolrooms. Whitnev was induced by Dillon to call at the rooms of the society, and while there was arrested. He immediately tossed a bundle of papers out of the window. These papers were recovered by a policeman on the watch. Among them was found a duplicate list of poolrooms which Whitney had previously supplied to Agent Dillon. One of the most remarkable phases of the developments, as related by Frank Moss, in the presence of the executive committee of the society, was the statement that thirty poolrooms were emptied promptly by means of telephone communication, following lines laid down by Whitney in his arrangements with Dillon, some of the messwges being sent through police headquarU direct to the captain or sergeants in charge of precincts in which the gambling houses were in operation. Mr. Moss claims that by this system of telephoning a "moral and pracical connection has been established between police headquarters and the poolrooms." MANY QUIT WORK. (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGEI pany at McKeesport will go out. The strikers claim that they will get many men in the two Pittsburg mills of the Carnegie Company, but the steel officials say that none of the men will go out. Conservative opinion at Wheeling, W. Va., awards the strikers 6,000 men in that district. Nine hundred men will leave the Republic works here in all probability. There is doubt a3 to the outcome at Monessen. Trouble was anticipated there to-night, but none came. Sharon reports that the men In the National plant will not go out. Connellsvillo leports that the men there are not affected; that the tin workers went out on the first order, and that the United States Steel coke workers are not organized. Youngrstown, O., wires that the general order will have no new effect In Mahoning valley, as the mills affected went out last month. Scottdale telegraphs that the general order will have no effect. The men at Rellalre, O., will go out, but Leechburg and Hyde Park report that the men are with the steel corporation. Excited crowds thronged the streets of McKeesport during the night, and sentiment was largely with the strikers. The plan to start an independent plant to take the place of the Dewees Wood mill seems to be approved by popular sentiment. President Shaffer's order was obeyed at Mingo Junction, where the National Steel Company employes struck. About 1.500 men are affected. At Duneansville no heed was given the call of President Shaffer, and from every "apparent indication the mill will continue rurring as usual. In so far as Apollo and Va'ndergrift are concerned President Shaffer's order is a dead letter. Of 112 men intei viewed to-night as they left the mill live signified their Intention of gcing on strike. ALL MILLS ROW MJ.l'MOX. Steel Corporation Is Fighting Hack with, n. Great Ileal of Vigor. PITTSBURG. Aug. 10. When the general strike edict of President T. J. Shaffer, of tha Amalgamated Association, went Into effect to-night, every mill of the National Steel Company, the Federal Steel Company, and the National Tube Company, for which the union scale had heretofore been signed, became nonunion. Upon the entrance of the Republic mill, of the National Tube Company, on the South Side, to-night was posted this notice: "Notice This mil; will start nonunion Monday morning. "JOSEPH KEFFERS. Superintendent." The officers of the United States Steel Corporation are "carrying the war into Africa." They have accepted the challenge of the Amalgamated Association, have calmly watched their plants close down and as calmly announced that in the future they would recognize no union of their employes. They have refused point blank to arbitrate the differences between workman of the constituent companies of tho parent corporation and have decided to throw off all Amalgamated Association ties and work Independently of that organization. The notice that was posted on the entrance to the Republic mill to-night was a facslmille of the notice that was posted on the entrances of all the heretofore union mills of the National, the Federal Steel and the National Tube Company's mills. It is the most decisive step that the trust has thus far taken. SHAFFER AT NEW CASTLE. Amalgamated Association President Make an Arbitration Proposition, PITTSDURG. Aus. lO.-Presldent Shaffer began his final tour among the strikers early to-day. He left Pittsburg this morning and shortly before noon reached New Castle. Two thousand organized workmen paraded there before his arrival and were lined up around the Union Station when he arrived. His welcome was an enthusiastic one. In the afternoon he spoke to six thousand union men In the ampitheater at Cascade Park, and submitted an orfer for the submission of the lfsues in the strike to arbitration. This was his formal tender for arbitration: "Now. in our willingness to settle the mattsr. we are ready to arbitra e. Let the Amalgamated Association select one man and let the trust select one: the two select the third. We will abide by the decision of the three. I wish this to be generally known." In his speech President Shaffer reviewed the strike situation minutely, lie ald the strike was a rnattar of wages and labor

conditions, notwithstanding the efforts of the representatives of the opposition to prejudice the labor cause by allegations tothe contrary. "The trust will not permit the extension of unionism, because they state the Amalgamated Association might become too strong." he said. "They say that there must be a number of nonunion ml. Is for the purposo of maintaining the balance of power.' We can make our own deductions relative to the meaning of thf. expression. In nonunion mills it means summary dismissal for a workman to b seen talking to a labor organizer. No man can exercise the prerogatives of an American citizen and be employed in the nonUnion mills. "The original proposition of settlement has never been altered by the trust representatives. Two weeks ago to-day Secretary Williams and myself went to New York and there met Messrs. Morgan, Schwab and Gary, with a view to compromising the demands. At the conference there was shown no dipposltoln on the part of the manufacturers to give a point. We expressed a willingness to compromise, but they would not. We have been terribly misrepresented. Now, we express ourselves In a manner that will admit of no doubt. Let the United States Stee! Corporation speak. What more, that is Jut and lawabiding and honorable, can we do?" President Shaffer stated that the news-raper-j had been criticising him because he had not stated whether or not there would be an eftcit to call out the carptnters, railroad it en and all other organizations in an effort to gain favorable termination. "Rut we do not want revolution," he said, "it Ik merelv a strike. 1 wish it .understood that I stand for no violence. Our interests will not permit acts antagonistic to country and law; we will avoid them if the trust will permit vs. It is of;en a.ked roe, 'Will you win out?' The Amalgamated Association will win out. or it will cease to exist. We realize that wage are at stake und labor conditions are at issue. If our organization lies I hope it will not have died in ain." Tho reference made by President Shaffer to the willingness of the Amalgamated Association to arbitrate was followed here tonight by the announcement on behalf of the strikers that on Friday an offer to arbitrate was formally submitted to the United States Steel Corporation. According to this statement the offer was made to J. l ierpont Morgan, whose reply rejecting It was: "This Is no time for arbitration." The subject was discussed on Friday by President ßhafter. President Gompers, Joseph Bishop, Frank Morrison, M. M. Garland and an unnamed official of the Amorloan Tin Plate Company, and a basis for the submission of the question agreed upon. It is said that President Shaffer opposed the plan at first, but was finally won over and agreed to certain concessions in behalf of the Amalgamated Association. The strikers are using the Incident In their fight. They ay that they went much farther than could be expected, and that they have been put or the defensive, in a light which threatens the existence of their organization. Secretary Williams made the following statement to the Associated Press to-night: "A disinterested party called at the Amalgamated headquarters and offered to use his services looking to the arbitration of the old matter ir dispute between the Amalgamated Association and the United States Steel Corporation. The proposition to arbitrate was turned down by the United States Steel Corporation." ADVICE AT M'KKESPORT.

Strikem t'rged to Withdraw Their Saving from the lianki. PITTSRURfi. Aug. lO.-rresident Shaffer hurried to McKeesport from New Castle, and to-nisht addressed a big mass meeting at White's Opera House. Shaffer was loudly cheered when he appeared, and the meeting was very enthusiastic. The strikers claim that as a result of the meeting the National tube and rolling mill men will strike. In the course of his address President Shaffer made the following statement: "I have received from some one a letter saying that the worklngmen have a lot of money In the banks which is being used by the trusts. This is true. The trusts are supported by the banks. Men, draw out your money, not to bring trouble on the banks, or impair the credit of the country, but to assert your right to defend yourselves and your rights. Do not let your own money bo used against you. Only this week 1 was called on tho telephone by a tin manufacturer who sold out to the trust and is now an Independent manufacturer in this State. He offered me a compromise. I called a meeting of my advisers, and this man. with another, came to the meeting. He made his proposition to me, and 1 asked him to put it in writing. lie would not do it, and that proposition was just what was wanted. "Men, I won't do business with the other side unless they put It in writing. When I went to New York one week ago to-day. and met the other side. I told them that I was there to make an honorable settlement of the question. 1 sketi them to sign it scale for all the mills, because all the men wanted to be union men. They refused, and I reduced my original demand, but they refused to accept the compromise. The men who made McKeesport made the trust. They now threaten our rights and deny our liberties. I call upon you, men of McKeesport, to throw off the oppressors and end the system of spoliation, revenge and reprisal. This is no time for weakness, no time for truce; no time for cowardice. It is the time we must unite, and stand together. You cannot yield; you cannot surrender; for it means reduction of wages and Ignominious slavery, let our garments become threadbare; let some of us toll until we fall into our graves: but remember this, even If the Amalgamated should be overthrown it would only mean a greater brotherhood of man, which would attain a glorious victory." Will Take a Secret Ilallot. CHICAGO, Aug. 10. To-morrow afternoon five hundred skilled workmen in the steel mills of South Chicago will decide by secret ballot whether or not to strike, in obedience to the call of President Shaffer and the Amalgamated Association. Indications were at a late hour to-niht that they would decide not to strike. The vote on a straw ballot taken to-day was 90 per cent. In favor of continuing at work, as against 10 per cent, in favor of striking. Union Agent to lie Kept Ont. LORAIN, O., Aug. 10. The Federal Steel Company, to-day posted notices at the gates of its works here that none but persons actually employed would be admitted. This is generally regarded as a precaution taken to prevent agents of the Amalgamated Association working among the employes. Preparing; for Removal. WARREN, O., Aug. 10. A number of officials were here to-day from Pittsburg making a survey of the local plant of the American Steel Hoop Company. They declined to make a statement, but it is understood their purpose is to prepare for the removal of the mill in case the strike Is not settled. OFFICERS ELECTED. Keneaavr Memorial Association Per fecta Its Organization. PEORIA, III., Aug. 10. The Kenesaw Memorial Association, formed for the purpose of erecting monuments to the soldiers who fell on the field of battle at Little Kenesaw mountain on June 27, 1S04, met in this city this afternoon and elected officers as follows: President. Capt. Frank B. James, Cincinnati, Fifty-second Ohio Regiment; vice president. Dr. J. R. Slago, Eighty-fifth Illinois, tjulncy. HI.; secretary, Capt. L. J. Davis, Eighty-sixth Illinois. Peoria, 111.; treasurer. W. A. Payton, One- . hundred-and-twenty-flfth Illinois, Danville, 111. The association will run an excursion to the battlefield in October, taking all tho surviving members of the regiments .of Cook's Brigade to the scene. LACERATED BY A BULLDOG. Mr. Martha Ilaxter, President Illinois W. U. C, Terribly Injured. SPRINGFIELD, III., Aug. 10. Mrs. Martha Baxter, wife of Edward Baxter, and department president Woman's Relief Corps. Illinois G. A. R.. was terribly bitten by a bull dog to-day on the breast, thigh and logs. The dog was killed. Physicians say Mrs. Baxter's case is serious. Pardoned by the President. COLUMBUS. O., Aug. 10 President McKinley has granted a pardon to John B. Bullev. serving a three years' sentence in the Ohio penitentiary. Bulley was a cleric in the Toledo postoillce and was convicted of stealing, opening and destroying a large number of letters. He is restored to citizenship. His term would have expired la September.

NEGRO POSSIBLY BURNED

SI PPOEI) TO HAVE HEE TOR. Tt'Itni) AT STAKE II V A MOW. - Woman's Assailant Taken from II tt Captor ly 4iX (eorRlxins, Who Took Him Into the Woods. SAVANNAH. Ga.. Aug. 11. The negro assailant of Mrs. J. J. Clark was captured at Liberty City yesterday by R. I. Young, a section master of the Seaboard Air-line. Last night he was taken to Way's Station and positively identified by Mrs. Clark. While being removed from Way's to Bryan county in! the prisoner was taken away fro:- ;tor by a mob and, it is believ- en burned at the stake. Püeh.ti- news of the lynching is lacking and could not be secured last idght. The Morning News' advices come from the man who captured the assailant of Mrs. Clark, who says he was ordered to leave the vicinity by the men who took the negro from his custody. With bis prisoner Mr. Young reached Way's Station at S:C0 o'clock, but found no one in authority waiting to receive him and take charge of the negro. The negro, up to this time, had stolidly denied all knowledge of the assault upon Mrs. Clark. He. was carried before her, and she positively identified him as the man who had assaulted her. She said there could be no doubt the negro under arrest was the guilty man, and with this positive assurance Mr. Young started with ids prisoner for Bryan county jail. He was not permitted to reach his destination. Five hundred yards from the place where the crime was committed a mob of IX) or 5o0 men was collected. Its leader demanded the surrender of the prisoner, and Mr. Young had no alternative but obedience to their demand. He was ordered then to leave the vicinity, and he obeyed this command. A short time afterwards he saw a fire, the flames from which ascended above the tops of the surrounding trees. He telegraphed the Morning News that he has no doubt the negro had been burned at the stake. OBITUARY. Jonlah Johnson Ilawr, the Oldest Photographer In the World. BOSTON. Mass.. Aug. 10. Reports have been received from New Hampshire of the death of Josiah Johnson Hawes, of this city, who is supposed to have been the oldest photographer in the world. He was in his ninety-fourth year and was away on a vacation in New Hampshire at the time of his death. In early life he was a painter of oil portraits and of miniatures on ivory. When M. Gounod came to Boston in 1S1 to tell about Daguerre's discovery Mr. Hawes made his acquaintance and took the American agency for the process of which Daguerre was the inventor. In his studio the first camera picture of Daniel Webster w;s made on the morning when tho famous Anthony Burns speech was delivered from the balcony of the Revere House. Jenny Lind and Goldsohmidt. whom she afterward married, were photographed by Mr. Hawes; also Oliver Wendell Holmes. Theodore Parker, Emerson, Thomas Starr King. Longfellow. Whittler, Louis Kossuth and Baron Rothschild. Chnplnin Chidwick's Mother. NEW YORK, Aug. 10. Chaplain John P. Chid wick, of the United States steamer New York, now cruising ofC the coast of Japan, may not learn of the death of his mother. Mrs. Margaret Chidwick, which has just occurred at her home in Brooklyn, for several weeks. Cablegrams have been sent to various Japanese ports, but It Is not known just where or when the cruiser will enter port. Chaplain Chidwick became well known several years ago as the chaplain of the battleship Maine at the time of the explosion in Havana harbor. Senor Gonzales Del CnmpIIIo. WILLEMSTAD, Curacao, Aug. 10.-Senor Gonzales del Camplllo, the Spanish minister to Venezuela, is dead. RESCUED FROM DROWNING. Ten ' Persons Saved by Four Young Men Who Risked Their Lives. CHICAGO, Aug. 10. Ten persons were rescued from drowning in the lake at the Barry avenue and Dlversey boulevard bathing beaches this afternoon by four young men, who risked their lives In the undertow. Of those saved one was a woman and the others were boys and young men. Those taken from the water at Barry avenue were: Harry Devereux, fifteen years old; Natham Kimble, Mrs. J. Osgood, Harry Wenzel, Roy White. The five saved at Diversey boulevard were: George Kane, Henry Keefe. Edward Schreader; two boys, identity not learned. The rescues at Diversey boulevard beach were effected by Peter Baer. Charles Mazer and Peter Andrews. Kane and Schreader were out on the lake and tho boat capsized. The boys were helpless in the water and shrieked for aid as they sank. Baer and Maxer were afloat in a skiff, and they bent to their oars in the hope of reaching the victims of the accident. The struggling boys were caught in an undertow and were disappearing for the last time when the rescuers reached them. Keefe was caught in the undertow while bathing and Andrews plunged from the pier and went to his assistance. The two boys whose identity was not learned were caught in the undertow a few hundred feet from shore, and when they were pulled up on land they scrambled to their feet and scurried av.ay. James Egan. who previously saved twenty-one people, made the rescues at Barry avenue. NOT A COMBINATION. Armour & Co. and Svrift A Co. Merely Business Partners. CHICAGO, Aug. 10. The packing firms of Armour & Co. and Swift & Co. to-day became joint owners of the stockyards at Fort Worth, Tex., and will soon expend Jl.000.003 in building branch plants at that place. Ownership of the stockyards was secured at a conference in the afternoon between J. Ogden Armour, president of Armour At Co.; Gustavus F. Swift, president of Swift & Co.. and G. W. Simpson, president of the Fort Worth Stockyards Company. While the two firms become joint owners of the stockyards, they will erect separate plants and will continue as rivals for the meat trade of the country. It was denied by officials of both companies that any combination was intended. ON THE OTHER TACK. Tillman Pleads thnt MrLauriu lie ot liar red from the Priiuario. CHESTER. S. C, Aug. 10.-Senator Tillman, with other political Naders of the State, addressed a large and enthusiastic meeting here to-day. Senator Tiliman argued and pleaded that McLaurln be not denied the rlsht of entering the primary. He said he decs not believe Senator McLaurln will ever make the race, and he does not, he said, want Mr. Mclaurin to have the excuse that he could not run. If Mr. McLaurln runs Senator Tillman says he does not believe he will carry a single county in the State. Has Resumed Uuslnes. CLEVELAND. O., Aug. lO.-The Guarantee Savings and Loan Company, against

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which proceedings were recently begun by state othcials on the ground that the concern was Insolvent, resumed business today, following the resignation of Secretary Hlodt and the appointment of his successor. It is understood the suit apainst the company will be withdrawn and that an assessment will be levied against the stockholders to cover loans alleged to have been illegally made. Experts are now at work examining the books of the concern. RETURN OF JERE M. WILSON. Former Iiidlnulun Who Mu He Schley' Chief C'ouimel. NKW YORK. Aug. 10. Jere M. Wilson, of Washington, who will probably conduct the case of Admital Schley before the court of inquiry, arrived this evening on the American line sUamship St. Iouis. He ha id: "I have received a cablegram from my dear friend. Admiral Schley, in relation to his case, and it is more than probable that I shall conduct hiu case. I am goinm" to a hotel and after I have been there and sort of looked over matters I'll know more. Though 1 received a cablegram from the admiral, I did not hurry over on that account." Mr. Wilson was met at the pier by Captain Parker, who has been at the Navy Department looking ever the records of the naval operations during the war with special interest of Admiral Schley. BACK FROM SAMOA. Philadelphia Return from u CrnUc.Mnlletoa to lie Itepatriated. Correspondence of the Associated Press. HONOLULU, Aug. 2, via San Francisco Aug. 10. The cruiser Philadelphia has arrived here from Pago Pago, Samoa. She will sail for San Francisco Aug. 7. The Philadelphia's visit to Pago Pago was the first she had made since lsW, when two of her officers and two men were killed by batives. This lime her reception was very friendly. It is reported from Samoa that Malietoa has decided to return to German Samoa and take the oath of allegiance to the German government, in return the Germans are to make him a member of the advisory council. Louses by Fire. LEXINGTON. Ky.. Aug. 10. Fire this afternoon destroyed property valued at fco,t"0, including the famous Tattersall's amphitheater and other noted horse properties, a cluster of sale barns adjacent to the Kentucky Trotting Horse JJreeders Association track and several residences. The hre is supposed to have started from a pipe in one of th stables, insurance aggregating $13,'X was carried on the burned property. VANCOl'VKK. Ii. C Aug. 10. A large part of the business section of Armstrong, lt. C, was burned to-day. The. total loss is JlHi.OKi, insurance J2ü,ou0. The origin of the lire wa inc-endiary. a half-witted man names Tagles having started the tire with coal oil. He confessed his guilt, was arrested and is now in jail. ST. LOCIS. Mo.. Aug. 10. Two large Luildings owned by the Hafner-Lothman Manufacturing Company, consisting of planing mill and sash and door fnctory, were burned this afternoon, entailing a loss estimated at J13u,0u'J. Three freight cars on the Missouri, Kansas Sc Texas tracks were destroyed. Ecuador's Building Trnnaferred. BUFFALO, N. Y.. Aug. 10. Ecuador's handsome building at the Pan-American KxposiJion was formally transferred to the exposition company the anniversary of the birth of that republic. Many of the foreign and state commissioners were present. The ceremonies began with an address by Senor Don Luis Felipe. Carbo, minister of Ecuador at Washington. In concluding his remarks Senor Carbo said: "The republic of Ecuador has her doors open to the commerce of the world. A powerful American concern is building a railroad to unite Quayaquil, our most Important seaport, to Quito, our capital. Agricultural recources are, In my country, at the disposition of any one wishing to make use of intelligent investments of capital in the most productive of business enterprises." New Kailtrny to Be Dullt. KANSAS CITY, Aug. 10.-F. W. Villient. chief engineer of the Arkansas & Choctaw Railroad, announces that he will on Aug. 2i award the contract for the Oklahoma and Indian Territory section of the railroad. The cost will be about J5.mMio. The completed road will be tffcj miles long, extending from Arklnda on the Arkansas and Indian Territory line, through parts of Louisiana. Indian Territory, Oklahoma and Texas to Wichita Falls, Texas. Twenty-live miles of the road have already been built connecting Arklnda with Ashdown, twenty miles north of Tesarkana. Gen. llufua I, eelj. MEMPHIS, Tenn.. Aug. 10.-Gen. Rufus P. Neely died this morning at his home in Pollvar, Tenn., aged ninety-three years. He was prominent in state politics a half century ago. was a volunteer in the Seminole war and the war with Mexico, and commanded the Fourth Tennessee (Confederate) Regiment in the civil war. He was also at one time president of the Central Mississippi Railroad. Salmon Canneries Consolidated. PORTLAND. Ore.. Aug. 10. The woik of consolidating thirty salmon canneries on Puget sound and in Alaska was completed to-day, and the Pacific i acklng and Nävif ration Company paid over about V. ".0u0 n cash and distributed stock to the various cannery men who have come into the combination. Iniane Mother Kill Helpless Son. ROME. N. Y.. Aug. 10.-While lying in bed suffering from injuries received by failing from a horse, Alvin Se.iton, agtd ten jtars. of Glenmore. was murdered, last nigh.!, by his mother, who cut hia tnroat from tar to ear with a razor. The woman was temporarily insane and alone in the house with her son. Georgia Doctor Assassinated. CHATTANOOGA. Tenn.. Aug. 10. A tele phone message from Trenton. Ga., this morning says Dr. II. E. Fricks, one of the oldest and most influential citizens of Rising Fawn. Ga.. near Trenton, was shot and killed while riding horsback. A posse is in pursuit of the supposed murderer. The Considlnes Plead !ot Guilty. SKATYLK. Wash.. Aug. f John ai:d Tom Cor..sh!!:;c ch.ii'-' with lb- lour.lvi of Chief of l;olire .M; r.'dith. wer.- .uranr.'d to-Jay b-fore Judg Kniery, of the Superior Court. lioth I'le oi.-.l not ;,uiiiy .i n.i the trial was set for S-pt. PJ. "Joint' liquor Emptied Into Gutter. FNION VILLI' Mo.. Auir. 1 " At M-iidota. a town f l ';' on the Imj state line, vi.-tcrday. thirty wnm raid-d a "Joint" ri;n by J..;i Mori.y. ;ipiid all the liquor fvund in Uk- piace into the gutter and demolished the iixtures. Automobiles for South Africa. TOLKDO. (.. Aug. 1'. A manufacturing company of this city has Ju-t hippd thr.e r.ich-pov. r automobiles to Cap.Town. South Africa. They wire ordered by the British government or ti Uve 0'f armv officers.

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